Mikhail Epstein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mikhail Epstein

Russian-American writer

Date of Birth: 21-Apr-1950

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Profession: literary critic, philosopher, literary historian

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Mikhail Naumovich Epstein or Epshtein (Russian: ?????´? ???´????? ?????´??;, born 21 April 1950, is a Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University, Atlanta, US.
He there moved from Moscow, USSR, in 1990.
He has also worked as a Professor of Russian and Cultural Theory at Durham University, UK, from 2012 to 2015, where he was the founder and Director of the Centre for Humanities Innovation at Durham University.His areas of specialization include postmodernism, cultural and literary theory; the history of Russian literature and intellectual history; contemporary philosophical and religious thought, and ideas and electronic media.
Epstein is also an expert on Russian philosophy of the 19th and 20th centuries and on thinkers like Nikolai Berdyaev.
He writes essays on cultural, social, ethical and international issues.